Rezoning could pave the way for a neighborhood ice cream shop on the near Southeast Side of Aurora.

Aldermen Tuesday will vote on rezoning a vacant house at 538 S. Broadway in which a coin laundry operated until about four years ago. After closing, the house at Broadway and Seminary Avenue has been vacant.

"This would be a community ice cream shop," the potential business owner recently told aldermen. "It would be a place for the neighborhood kids to stop in and have a treat."

The old house on the property currently has single-family dwelling zoning. By rezoning, the property would get Neighborhood Commercial zoning, which would allow the building owner to use the first-story of the building for a local commercial use. Residential use would be permitted on the second story.

The ice cream shop would then go into the place where the laundry use to be.

The site does have a parking lot, and the owner would restripe it for eight parking spaces and a handicap accessible space.

The City Council is set to vote on the rezoning at its regular meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the council chambers, City Hall, 44 E. Downer Place.